Telegram-herald., 1887-07-16

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bravery 4al hls.neas fala1s 9-e The qualities
thai soiusaEes CONS oug sfrungess wb-a SIC
Ells herse8 iaciay rude civilization and
Ais - slllt Tor herself a. teet shs caA
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woman There = 10 rall % pity pioneer Il
lbs --AeE .e1, Tor il be has tie right stuH la
hi-a II 9ont hurt Lim % buc.ie risnt down
% lhe bone. ard thea be canS bat s1cesed.
blt Tor ~etl4an, o. a. e1sterner ~ least Is
seetas different And yet. 50 far as oas can
see, toey l1s i-. reod many % them and it
bsllss 0ut tie bsst Shat - Ia thsm Z hey are
not ali asgea ~ any means. and q woman
Desperate Is sometimes qu.re a. much 20 be
feared as tbs Nogst ~ tbs men. Thne was
one down ia Arizona whom tie ranchnisn tel
tales of yet, sud wizh something Ike pride in
her exploits, too, wLO Silled, 50 they say,
twenty ave men With her 0Nn hands shs
w. q aard Tlisr aud crack shCt, - that .
wzs decidedly risky to be covered BY hsr rifle.
-LGr thai sanie p.,lck and courage that shs
showed, turned into more peaceful channels,
ma1-s srleli.iid success Of some OF the ranch
women The women who are managing
cattle ranges for themselves, not helping their
husbands gain q ioo,lng. which Is sometimes
aboa. a. h1rl, como from al social ranks
aGi have dTIftsd into tho business don't
know what proportion Of them havs deAo~r-
atsiy chosen tin al sorts CT WAYS Some
AZ taem are Te1ans. who we're almost Graded
With cattle assd % whom running = mower,
feeding stcck. breaking wild horses, or doing
any sort OF work about a ranch IS so much
matter OF education and habit that it seerns
1s much their natural occupation as taking
in sewing 20 q notable housewife eft a widow
ia an eastern village. They take hold clev-
eriy with their husbands x tGey marry; they
strike out for themselves on a sInlil sczle,
which sometimes grows 20 q larger one, IL
they don't
~Cthcr ranch women, especially IN Dakota.
come from New Eng and, -,ew York or ice
states north of the Ohio There are school
teachers among them. who have concluded 70
train something thar may possibly shoot more
prolsably than Ire nni1iistul young idea.
Most Of them went west, in tho first place,
with their husbands, TO see what could be
done in new country, and wien tho man Of
the family died on broke down, tho wife,
rather than sacrifice the foothold already
gained. stayed Ca. learned by experience,
bought her knowledge pretty dearly some
times, failed utterly perhaps, II the winters
were bad or fire svort her buildings; sue
cceded more PROBABLY. kept her stock IN good
share. aided To their numbers and came out
ahead little every year. IL IS no joke 90
succeed ia Dakota in cattle raising or tree
planting or wheat farming, but women can
and do make money Ia all three. Success is
graded, CT course, as elsewhere. The women
ranchers whom | know personally-and that
Is no very large numher-are no, ia the busi-
ness on a large scale. Some OF them are not
renching rs eastern people, with their ideas
OF the bigness OF western operations, inter-
pref the word az all. They have no more
than si- or ten cattle, perhaps, and from that
the number viii run up To twenty-five or
f.ty head, but they are an energetic and
business ike set OF women, who are working
industriously in the day Of small things, and
Of course with some, though perhaps with no
large EuElber OF CtheiT, tds Gay OF large
things has already come"
How tne ranch woman, whose business en-
terprise Mr Roo evels comnends in the west,
soulet ines makes her start from the east, is
illustrated in taa caso Of New YORK board
inE house keeper. who is woTilng at both
ends of the line Just now. Keeping boardsrs
is one of the most wearisofne aud discourage
iuy WAYS in which 2 woman earns living
Bat when she can keep 80 of them tho case
IS different indeed Ihs energetic woman
hsa ia,d by money enough some three or four
years ag0 o. take uD land in Dakota ard
stoCs cu o s1nall scale cattle range Since
that tiris her cattle have thriven and her
boarding hes prospsrcf With tho profits Of
tho latter sls has increased the number aT.i
Improved the breed u tho former. and is
looking f1r0ari - the day not very fsF dis
taa,. WHEN her western venture shall - vel
started anal under such promising head way
thal she usca heed ~ longer shc l1-apiaints O.
tts rarlor hoor iodzar whcse cgg j. always a
min,4,e to bari or ten sccou,is too soft. but
can pus up Lsr Gotham shutters and sett.s
herself G. grow up with t1c c0ratry il the
frss AMI Ocuciing wcst, whore hef hand need
practice ics cunning in tie mixing cf hash
no more New Xors Nal and Express In
terFisw.